The Department of Rural Economy (Deral), linked to the State Secretariat of Agriculture and Food Supply of Paraná (SEAB), estimates that the 2018/2019 soyabean harvest reached 89% of the estimated area of 5.435 million hectares this week. The final result has not yet been estimated, but a large state cooperative that has already finished harvesting has registered a 13% decrease in productivity. The entity works with a production perspective of 16,134 million tons, against 19,184 million tons of the previous harvest. The average productivity was estimated at 2,968 kilos per hectare, 16% below the 3,528 kilos recorded in the last harvest.
Source: Canal Rural